'Belief' is a direct result in the abandonment of critical thinking, logic and reason. That is the essence of my worldview.

ALL religions are man-made control mechanisms.

Edit: What could possibly lead one to have a 'belief' that the 'one true all-knowing, loving god' would send 'his one and only son' into a pack of bronze-age illiterate goat-hearding jews, and that his 'sole purpose' was to be 'sacrificed as a human' so that all the rest of the humans could be 'saved' from original sin by being 'spiritually washed in his blood'? The mental gymnastics that are required for this are at Olga Korbut levels.

'Belief' is a direct result in the abandonment of critical thinking, logic and reason. That is the essence of my worldview.

ALL religions are man-made control mechanisms.

Edit: What could possibly lead one to have a 'belief' that the 'one true all-knowing, loving god' would send 'his one and only son' into a pack of bronze-age illiterate goat-hearding jews, and that his 'sole purpose' was to be 'sacrificed as a human' so that all the rest of the humans could be 'saved' from original sin? The mental gymnastics that are required for this are at Olga Korbut levels.

'Belief' is a direct result in the abandonment of critical thinking, logic and reason. That is the essence of my worldview.

ALL religions are man-made control mechanisms.

Edit: What could possibly lead one to have a 'belief' that the 'one true all-knowing, loving god' would send 'his one and only son' into a pack of bronze-age illiterate goat-hearding jews, and that his 'sole purpose' was to be 'sacrificed as a human' so that all the rest of the humans could be 'saved' from original sin?